On 3/15/25 7:08 PM, MacBeth wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 16:14:00 +, Nikola Novak via Bug reports for the
GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:
How do you end the heredoc with a multiline delimiter such as the following:
cat << "a
b"
You
On 3/15/25 9:18 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
POSIX says:
It is unspecified whether the line containing the trailing delimiter
is itself subject to this line continuation.
which means that nothing is required to make that work. Further, unless
bash documents it as working, it is free
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wall
uname output: Linux zinc 6.1.0-32-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian
6.1.129-1 (2025-03-06) x86
It's important that sections of ~/.bashrc be ordered correctly to prevent
such issues. Just because someone tells you to add something to the *end*
of your .bashrc does not mean that's necessarily the best place to put it.
1) some boilerplate, including checking whether the shell is actually
inter
On 3/17/25 3:26 PM, Ionut Nicula wrote:
Bash Version: 5.2
Patch Level: 15
Release Status: release
Description:
Had this weird issue on my work laptop where my .bash_history file
would get truncated from time to
time, and I had no idea what caused it because no background or
foreground
